{"id":330,"date":"2023-05-20T23:03:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T04:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/study-reveals-top-mosquito-attractants-body-odor-trumps-carbon-dioxide\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T23:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T04:03:35","slug":"study-reveals-top-mosquito-attractants-body-odor-trumps-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/study-reveals-top-mosquito-attractants-body-odor-trumps-carbon-dioxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Reveals Top Mosquito Attractants: Body Odor Trumps Carbon Dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent study conducted by researchers from the US and Zambia has identified the scents that attract mosquitoes the most.[0]<\/a><\/sup> The study, which centred on the African malaria mosquito species, Anopheles gambiae, took place in a testing area equivalent to the size of an ice rink in Zambia.[1]<\/a><\/sup> The researchers built a 20-by-20-meter flight cage arena, where they released 200 mosquitos and tracked their activity using infrared motion cameras.[2]<\/a><\/sup> The study found that the insects had a significant preference for body odour as compared to carbon dioxide bait.[3]<\/a><\/sup> Additionally, mosquitoes were less likely to buzz over to scents with lots of the chemical eucalyptol, found in plants like sage and eucalyptus trees.[4]<\/a><\/sup> The study is one of the first to test how the Anopheles gambia mosquitos locate human hosts over longer distances in a \u2018real world\u2019 setting.[5]<\/a><\/sup> The researchers found that one volunteer who had a different body odour composition consistently avoided the mosquito\u2019s attention.[6]<\/a><\/sup> The researchers hope that these findings contribute to the development of more effective repellants and traps.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

0. <\/span>“What mosquitoes are most attracted to in human body odor is revealed” WISN Milwaukee, 20 May. 2023, https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/mosquitoes-attraction-human-body-odor\/43942932<\/a><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>“Why some people attract mosquitoes and others don't” KMZU, 19 May. 2023, https:\/\/www.kmzu.com\/news\/national\/why-some-people-attract-mosquitoes-and-others-don-t\/article_07e0ebf9-4498-5f71-852a-91a57f05a4eb.html<\/a><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>“Scientists Built a Giant Human Scent Buffet to Learn How Mosquitoes Find Us” Gizmodo, 19 May. 2023, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-built-a-giant-human-scent-buffet-to-learn-ho-1850455372<\/a><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>“Scientists discover which body odours mosquitoes prefer” Cosmos, 19 May. 2023, https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/health\/scientists-discover-which-body-odours-mosquitoes-prefer\/<\/a><\/p>\n

4. <\/span>“How mosquitoes find tasty humans from hundreds of meters away” Earth.com, 19 May. 2023, https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/how-mosquitoes-find-tasty-humans-from-hundreds-of-meters-away\/<\/a><\/p>\n

5. <\/span>“Human body odor critical for mosquito host-seeking behavior over long distances, study finds” News-Medical.Net, 19 May. 2023, https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20230519\/Human-body-odor-critical-for-mosquito-host-seeking-behavior-over-long-distances-study-finds.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

6. <\/span>“Are you a mosquito magnet? It might be for one unpleasant reason” New York Post , 21 May. 2023, https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/20\/mosquitos-may-be-more-interested-in-biting-you-for-this-odd-reason<\/a><\/p>\n

7. <\/span>“Perfectly smelly? Mosquitoes hunt for the right body odors before biting humans” Study Finds, 19 May. 2023, https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/mosquitoes-hunt-for-body-odors\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent study conducted by researchers from the US and Zambia has identified the scents that attract mosquitoes the most.[0] The study, which centred on the African malaria mosquito species, Anopheles gambiae, took place in a testing area equivalent to the size of an ice rink in Zambia.[1] The researchers built a 20-by-20-meter flight cage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coco66.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}